Rita Rudner marking milestone

There's no place like home. Just ask Rita Rudner, who steps into the PBS spotlight with a TV special commemorating her 2,000th performance as a Las Vegas headliner.

Titled "Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas," the show tapes Friday at Harrah's Theatre, but the PBS special also will include footage depicting her offstage life.

The special debuts locally in March on KLVX-TV, Channel 10. That seems fitting, because Rudner's pledge-drive appearance on Channel 10 a few years ago inspired the show. It airs nationally on PBS in June.

Greetings from Japan: The TV show known as the "Beverly Hills 90210" of Japan is coming to the big screen -- and to Las Vegas.

A follow-up movie to the hit TV drama "Hana Yori Dango" (which translates as "Boys Over Flowers," a takeoff on the Japanese proverb "Food over flowers") updates the after-graduation fates of classmates at elite Eitoku Academy, including poor but spunky Makino Tsukushi (played by Mao Inove) and wealthy Doumyouji Tsukasa (Jun Matsumoto).

Locations range from Valley of Fire and the Strip to The Orleans, where the production is building sets in valet parking and the casino pit.

Reality bites: TLC's "Little People, Big World" is expected to return to Las Vegas on Thursday for a six-day visit following salesman Matt Roloff and his family. It's the show's second Las Vegas shoot; footage from this week's visit will air in the fall.

Another TLC show, "What Not to Wear," hit town last week for three episodes. One, an environmentally-friendly "green" episode, filmed at Republic Services in North Las Vegas and will debut in mid-April, while the Fremont Street Experience provided the backdrop for a mother-daughter segment (the parent-child duo unwittingly nominated each other for makeovers) scheduled for May.

A third episode filmed on Valentine's Day at downtown's Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, where host Stacy London interrupted a local couple renewing their vows, whisking them away for a New York makeover.

And cameras for the syndicated "Jerry Springer Show" plan to be on the Strip sometime this week to gather end-of-show shout-outs from Vegas passers-by.

Snoop around: Rapper Snoop Dogg was scheduled to be the "Life of the Party" Friday at a music video shoot for the song of the same name, with locations inside the Palms' Playboy Club, on the Strip and at the Fremont Street Experience.

Short shots: Director Rusty Meyers of locally based RAW Productions planned a weekend shoot for the short "Karma," about "a not-so-nice guy" who "almost gets what's coming to him." Planned locations ranged from a Spanish Oaks residence to an off-Strip parking lot.

Carol Cling's Shooting Stars column appears Mondays. Contact her at (702) 383-0272 or e-mail her at ccling@reviewjournal.com.